ONE S- ME I sing of a simple and separate Person Yet, I pronounce the word Democratic, the word En-masse. From the physiology from head to toe I sing, Neither the physiognomy alone, nor the brain alone are worthy of a muse I say that the complete Form is much more worthy The Female on par with the male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, in pulse and in power. Transcendentalism in Walt Whitman's poem One's-self I Sing. "America sings a democratic song." Transcendentalism started from 1900s. America had sung a new song in the form of literature. The new period lasted approximately until the end of the American Civil War. This is when the Romantic movement was born.